John Flavan

About

I build products that actually matter to people. I lead engineering teams and turn messy, complicated problems into clean solutions that scale.

Current Focus

AI-Enabled Engineering

Leading a transformation of our software development lifecycle with AI tooling. Integrating intelligent assistants into every stage, from planning and coding to review and testing.

Claude Code Codex Copilot Azure Foundry

Engineering Leadership

Managing two development teams and a dedicated quality engineering team. Focused on building high-trust environments where people do their best work and ship with confidence.

3 Teams Agile/Scrum Mentorship

Quality Engineering & AI Testing

Building a quality-first culture powered by intelligent automation. Leading teams in developing AI-driven testing agents that explore, validate, and catch what humans miss.

Testing Agents Playwright AI Automation

Experience

15+ years building software, leading teams, and shipping products across insurance, logistics, and enterprise SaaS.

Manager, Software Engineering

2025 – Present

Alliant Insurance Services

Leading two development teams and a quality engineering team building full stack cloud solutions for public entity insurance brokering. Driving AI-enabled SDLC transformation.

Full Stack Developer, Tech Lead

2017 – 2025

Alliant Insurance Services

Lead teams in developing .NET and Angular projects with Azure infrastructure. Transformed testing practices and worked with vendors and teams to implement automated testing.

UI Developer

2014 – 2017

Alliant Insurance Services

Designed and developed UI on SharePoint 2013 and MVC 5 sites. Led responsive redesigns and rapid prototyping.

Designer, Developer, PM

2015 – 2017

bradgood.net

Custom Squarespace sites. End-to-end delivery: brand design, integrations, SEO, and project management.

Software Developer

2011 – 2015

Royal Canin SAS

Built intranet applications, optimized SQL stored procedures, and developed scalable WCF Web Services for enterprise order processing.

Database Developer

2013 – 2014

Cass Information Systems

B2B logistics expense management software using SQL Server, C#, WCF, and Silverlight.

Web Developer

2010 – 2011

Smoky Jennings Chevrolet

Vehicle inventory and tracking web application in .NET with SQL Server and jQuery.

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

C# .NET Core Angular TypeScript JavaScript SQL

Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure Azure DevOps Redis SignalR Service Bus GitHub GitHub Actions CI/CD Azure IaC

AI & Tooling

Claude Code Codex Copilot Azure Foundry AI Integrations

Data & Architecture

MS SQL PostgreSQL Clean Architecture CQRS REST/Web API Dapper EF Core

Testing & Quality

XUnit Playwright Automated Testing Test Strategy

Integrations & Design

Salesforce Webflow Applied Epic Okta Photoshop Adobe Suite

Contact

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